Organizing for the US Equal Rights Amendment: Strategic Strengths and Failures
Organizing for the Equal Rights Amendment the first time round, in 1972-82, tapped the strengths and experienced the weaknesses of social mo...
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Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series
A weekly seminar during the academic year focused on understanding and closing gender gaps in the areas of economic opportunity, political participation, health, and education.
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20 of 100 episodesShifting Policy, Workplace Norms and Culture to End Workplace Sexual Violence
Millions of people disclosed sexual harassment and violence against them following the #MeToo breakthrough in October 2017. Despite the fact...
HKS Gender and Security Seminar Series: LGBT Ex-Combatants in Colombia
Join us for an HKS Gender and Security Seminar Series event featuring Theresia Thylin, PhD Candidate in the Essex University (UK) Department...
Do Sexual Harassment Programs Make Workplaces More Hospitable to Women?
Do corporate sexual harassment programs reduce harassment? If they do, new programs should boost the share of women in management because ha...
Unintended Consequences of Diversity Initiatives: Types, Causes, and Interventions
The purpose of diversity initiatives is to help groups that face disadvantage in society (e.g., women, racial/ethnic minorities, etc.) achie...
Babies, Work, or Both? Highly-Educated Women’s Employment and Fertility in East Asia with Mary Brinton
Only two OECD countries continue to exhibit an M-shaped curve of female labor force participation across the life cycle: Japan and South Kor...
What Works: Designing an Inclusive Workplace with Iris Bohnet
Gender equality is a moral and a business imperative. But unconscious bias holds us back, and de-biasing people’s minds has proven to be dif...
They, Them, and Theirs: Including Nonbinary Gender Identities in Law and Policy with Jessica Clarke
Nonbinary gender identities have quickly gone from obscurity to prominence in American public life, with growing acceptance of gender-neutra...
HKS Gender and Security Seminar Series -- Transgender Military Service: What's at Stake in the Debate?
This HKS Gender and Security Seminar Series event features Aaron Belkin, Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University an...
Global Colorism with Trina Jones
Scholars have widely discussed colorism – the differential treatment of same-race individuals based on skin color – with regard to the Afric...
Why Women Mobilize: Dissecting and Dismantling India’s Political Gender Gap with Soledad Prillaman
In India, there persists a striking gender gap in political participation and representation. This political gender gap persists despite dec...
Does Group Farming Empower Rural Women? India’s Experience with Bina Agarwal
Few programs for economically empowering rural women focus primarily on farming—the one occupation in which women have the most experience i...
The Mommy Effect: Do Women Anticipate the Employment Effects of Motherhood? with Jessica Pan
After decades of convergence, the gender gap in employment outcomes has recently plateaued in many wealthy countries, despite the fact that...
Stereotype Threat and Professional Women’s Engagement: A Global Perspective with Zoe Kinias
How does women's concern about confirming gender stereotypes (i.e., stereotype threat) predict their engagement in professional leadership c...
What Does it Mean to “Help”? Investigating the Helping Orientations of Men Working in Elite Jobs with Stephanie Creary
Despite efforts to diversify the ranks of top management across the private and public sectors, women and racial minorities continue to be u...
Implicit Stereotypes: Evidence from Teachers’ Gender Bias with Michela Carlana
In this seminar, Michela Carlana analyzes the impact of teachers' gender stereotypes on student achievement. She collects a unique dataset i...
Equal Opportunity Peacekeeping with Sabrina Karim
In this seminar, Sabrina Karim focuses on the role women have played in peacekeeping, arguing that increasing the number of women is importa...
Out of the Running? Gender and Race Differences in Political Ambition among HKS and Other Elite Millennials with Shauna Shames
Millennials are often publically criticized for being apathetic about the American political process and their lack of interest in political...
To Delegate or not to Delegate: Gender Differences in Affective Associations and Behavioral Responses to Delegation with Modupe Akinola
Do women and men view delegation differently? In this seminar, Modupe Akinola shares her research showing that women imbue delegation with m...
The Influence of Sexual Orientation and Race on Gender Prescriptive Stereotypes with Sa-Kiera Hudson
Gender stereotypes persist in society. Many of these stereotypes are prescriptive, indicating how men and women should behave in social situ...